by Rogath Henry | 16 June 2020 08:46 pm06
In life, never make the mistake of reducing your time in prayer. It’s better to cut down time on other seemingly important things than to reduce even a little bit of your prayer life. If you’ve already become a person of prayer and then start to slack off, you are creating space for the enemy to cause significant destruction in your life.
There is a secret the Lord shared with His disciples about prayer. He said:
“Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” (Matthew 26:41)
That phrase “so that you will not fall into temptation” is very serious.
Do you know why the Lord said,
“Even the very hairs of your head are all numbered” (Matthew 10:30)?
It’s because there’s another being who watches us very closely—even over the smallest things—and that is the devil. Many don’t realize that even after death, your body still has value to him. How much more your hair? Your saliva? Your fingers? Your hands? Yes, he desires all of them. That’s why the Bible says even our hairs are numbered (meaning they are protected so that not even one gets lost or is misused by the enemy).
If Satan fails to kill you in a car accident today, he might try to get you to cut yourself while doing dishes. If he misses poking your eye, he may at least try to cause you to scrape your skin. If he fails to infect you with a deadly disease like HIV, he’ll at least try to make you catch the flu just to trouble you. And if he fails even at that, he may try to get you pricked by a thorn on the road—just to hurt you. So the little things you think he doesn’t care about, he absolutely does.
But if you are a daily person of prayer—whether before bed, in the morning, or during the day when you get a quiet moment—you make it very hard for Satan to find room in your life. But if you are not prayerful, you’ll experience strange occurrences in your life and won’t even know their source. As an employee, you might suddenly start having conflicts at work or face unfair treatment. Or what you planned to succeed in fails. You might wake up healthy but return home gravely ill. These are life temptations.
Spiritual temptations are worse—you may find yourself in situations where you deny your faith or betray it.
Remember, just a few minutes after Jesus told Peter and the others to wake up and pray so they wouldn’t fall into temptation, what happened when they ignored Him? Just three hours later, before the rooster crowed and before their sleep was over, they were awakened by a crowd carrying clubs and swords. And some disciples fled so quickly that one ran away naked, leaving Jesus alone. (That’s already a denial of faith.)
And not just that! Peter, thinking he could overcome temptation without prayer, followed Jesus where He was taken—and ended up denying Him three times.
The same applies to us. If you’re not prayerful, you’ll wake up to messages from people asking for bribes so that your plans can succeed. But if you pray, God protects you from such things. You’ll be surprised to find the person who was supposed to ask for a bribe doesn’t ask—and still gives you your rightful service.
When you notice that you’ve reduced your prayer life, know that you’ve already started backsliding in your faith. The first sign is reduced prayer; the second is reduced reading of the Word.
Prayer is likened to the event with Prophet Moses during battle—when he lifted his hands, the Israelites gained power and won, but when he lowered them, the enemy overcame them. Likewise, God’s power remains over our lives only if we keep our hands and hearts lifted in daily prayer. These are just a few of the benefits of prayer; there are many more that we don’t have time to list here.
So never stop praying! And remember, prayer isn’t just that meal-time prayer, or “Our Father who art in heaven…” That’s not enough. The bare minimum, according to the Bible, is at least one hour per day. If you can do 3 or 4 hours, even better. And prayer isn’t going to be prayed for by a certain man of God or your relative. Prayer is you, standing by yourself, praying earnestly.
Again, remember—Satan is interested in your hair, your life, and every part of your body. Not necessarily through witchcraft or witches, as he has more demons than there are witches. Most of his work is done by these demons, more than by witches. A large percentage of people suffer from demonic oppression, thinking it’s witchcraft!
So set sail today—start a deep, daily prayer journey! If you’ve backslidden, return to your prayer lifestyle before things get worse.
If you’ve never given your life to Christ, these are the last days. Jesus is coming soon. Turn to Him today and surrender your life, and He will forgive you.
God bless you, and may He bless us all.
Maranatha! (The Lord is coming)
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